Scott and Dan pick the comics they’re most looking forward to…
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Dan Greenfield, editor, 13th Dimension
1982 DC Comics Style Guide, Standards Manual/DC. If it’s not in your comics shop yet, it should be this week!
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Batman: Dark Patterns #2, DC. There are 13 GREAT REASONS to read this book, particularly if you’re a Golden or Bronze Age fan. Click here.
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The Brave and the Bold #29 Facsimile Edition, DC. The second Justice League of America adventure! With requisite foil and sketch covers.
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Fantastic Four #1, Facsimile Edition, Marvel. Kicking off Marvel’s yearlong, monthly full-on reprints of Fantastic Four’s first 12 issues. They’ve released this issue as a Facsimile before, so I’m sitting this one out, but I’ll be on board starting with February’s Issue #2. There are sketch and foil cover versions, too, as well as a variant edition.
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Green Hornet/Miss Fury #1, Dynamite. Written by our pal Alex Segura with art by Federico Sorressa and co. There are 1,000,006 covers for this one, but I’m down for the variant by 13th Dimension fave Jacob Edgar.
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Back Issue #157, TwoMorrows. The Keith Giffen tribute issue — and a special farewell to retired editor Michael Eury. (Some stores may already have it but others should get it this week. Either way, you can also order directly from TwoMorrows. Click here.)
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Scott Tipton, columnist, 13th Dimension
The New Avengers Omnibus Vol. 1, Marvel. Brian Michael Bendis’ controversial re-launch of the Avengers, collected in a colossal-size hardcover. New printing.
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Aquaman #1, DC. Flash and Green Lantern writer Jeremy Adams tackles the King of the Seven Seas!
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DC Finest — Aquaman: King of Atlantis, DC. Speaking of Aquaman, some rarely collected Silver Age tales can be found here, with wonderful Ramona Fradon art.
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The Complete Little Nemo, 1905-1927, by Winsor McCay, Taschen. McCay’s revolutionary, dreamlike comic strip collected here in its entirety and in full color.
January 6, 2025
Oh! Little Nemo! I’ve loved him since I read the Penguin Book of Comics in High School fifty years ago!
January 6, 2025
The Aquaman DC Finest includes not just rarely collected stories, but many never collected stories from Adventure in the late 1950s. And several more stories from various early 1960s titles that have never been collected in color. Making this volume the first DCF to include many Silver Age stories restored for the first time, and my first DCF purchase.
January 6, 2025
Don’t be so quick to sit out this printing of the Fantastic Four #1 facsimile. The 2018 printing had bonus material, and as far as I know this one won’t, so it’ll be a more “pure” release. Also, let’s hope they used the correct Famous Artists Schools ad on the back cover this time!